West Bengal govt to include GTA employees under pension scheme

The West Bengal government has decided to bring all the employees of the GTA, including all its deemed employees, who had been erstwhile employees of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council, under the revised pay structure.

The Mamata Banerjee government has decided to bring all the employees of the GTA under the revised pay structure similar to state government employees.

The Mamata Banerjee government has decided to include all employees of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) and former Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC) under a revised pay structure similar to state government employees.

A press note issued by the Home department stated that the state government has decided to bring all the employees of the GTA, including all its deemed employees, who had been erstwhile employees of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council, under the revised pay structure similar to that as applicable to the employees of the state government under West Bengal Services(Revision of Pay and Allowance) Rules, 2019 ( ROPA 2019).

The government will also extend the pension scheme (The Darjeeling Gorkha Autonomous Hill Council Employees’ (Death-cum-Retirement Benefit) Scheme, 2000) to the ex-employees of the GTA and also to employees, who have been appointed on or after 2011 under the GTA Act, 2011 at the similar structure as applicable to the employees of the state government under ROPA 2009 and ROPA 2019.

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